Remove directory or delete directory using rmdir command.

Remove directory or delete directory using rmdir command.

Using the rmdir
command to delete empty directory or remove empty directory from the Linux
system.

Remove directory.

The rmdir command usually use to delete or remove empty directory in the Linux
system, there is several program or command that have the ability to remove or
delete directory form Linux system.
This article show the step by step using 'rmdir' command to remove or delete
empty directory from the Linux Fedora Core system.

Remove or delete empty directory.

The rmdir without any options can be use to delete only a empty directory. Step
shown below remove empty directory from the system

1. Before we can delete or remove a directory we need to create the
directory first, or we can use the available directory in the system (not
recommended). To be save,create empty directory name 'directory_example' directory
with 'mkdir' command.

[melinda@fedora ~]$
mkdir directory_example

2. Verify directory creation using ls command.

[melinda@fedora ~]$ ls
-l

total 4

drwxr-xr-x 2 melinda melinda
4096 Apr 7 05:15 directory_example

[melinda@fedora ~]$

3. Using the rmdir command to delete the empty directory.

[melinda@fedora ~]$
rmdir directory_example/

[melinda@fedora ~]$

or using the rmdir with option
-v for verbose output.

[melinda@fedora ~]$
rmdir -v directory_example

rmdir: removing directory,
directory_example

[melinda@fedora ~]$

Delete the empty directory tree.

You can use the rmdir command to delete list of empty directory include with
their parents directory.

1. Create empty directory using mkdir command with option
-p.

[melinda@fedora ~]$
mkdir -p list/of/empty/directory

2. Verify the empty directory list using 'tree' command.

[melinda@fedora ~]$ tree
list

list

`-- of

`-- empty

`-- directory

3 directories, 0 files

[melinda@fedora ~]$

3. Test using the rmdir command to delete the 'list' directory.

[melinda@fedora ~]$ rmdir -p list

rmdir: list: Directory not empty

[melinda@fedora ~]$

Note: The execution of rmdir fail because the 'list' directory contain other
directory ( directory 'of', 'empty' and 'directory').

4. Now using the same command above; but now try using the 'tab'
key for command completion till you get the same command shown in the example
below.